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Early farmers accidentally bred “warrior” wheat — plants shaped over millennia to fight neighbors for light and space. Then modern breeding had to undo all of it. A wild loop in crop evolution. #HumanEvolution #Archaeobotany #CropScience https://www.anthropology.net/p/how-early-farmers-accidentally-bred

Xie et al. use genotyping by target sequencing (GBTS) to generate an exome capture panel of the Triticeae D #genome and facilitate definition of the introgression landscape of Aegilops tauschii-#wheat derivatives.

https://doi.org/10.1111/jipb.70106
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#PlantSci #JIPB #CropScience #botany #FreeAccess

🙂#Rice is a staple crop and vital to #FoodSecurity in #China.

☹️Rice Sheath Blight is caused by Rhizoctonia solani, a damaging and difficult-to-control #fungal #pathogen.

What if there was a win-win strategy for both rice #yield and RSB resistance?
🔖🔓⬇️

https://doi.org/10.1111/jipb.70033
#PlantSci #CropScience #openaccess #botany

Hou et al. explore the potential role of cytoplasmic #genomes in #grape domestication, offering new insights into grape #evolution and #crop improvement.

🍇https://doi.org/10.1111/jipb.13968

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#PlantScience #JIPB #systematics #CropScience #MolecularBiology #gene #botany #OpenAccess

Pan-mitogenome and structural variation in grapevine populations

(A) The circular representation of grapevine pan-mitogenome. The conserved gene structure was annotated for: (i) the forward strand, and (ii) the reverse strand; and the (iii) mitochondrial pan-genome is indicated with a schematic drawing. (B) Phylogenetic tree (left panel) and gene content (right panel) of 33 Vitis accessions.

Colletotrichum gloeosporioides is a major threat to #mango #crops. Here, Xiang et al. report that Histone deacetylase MiHDA3 enhances #fruit resistance to this devastating #pathogen by deacetylating MiCAT1.

🥭https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jipb.70023

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#PlantSci #CropScience #botany

Diagram illustrating that in mango, the histone deacetylase MiHDA3 interacts with and deacetylates the catalase MiCAT1 at lysine residues K227 and K233; this deacetylation reduces MiCAT1 stability and enzymatic activity, resulting in increased H2O2 accumulation and enhanced resistance to anthracnose caused by Colletotrichum gloeosporioides in mango fruit.

We think #root #nodules are endlessly fascinating!
Not convinced? Then you'd better check out this #OA paper by Wang et al., published in #JIPB!

➡️https://doi.org/10.1111/jipb.70007

@wileyplantsci
#PlantScience #epigenetics #gene #peanut #legume #CropScience #FoodScience #FoodSecurity #botany

Characterization of OCRs and epigenome markers in peanut roots and nodules.

"Iowa farmers push back in precision agriculture"

#agtech #drones #ai #gps #cropscience #monocrops #smallfarms #iowa

https://www.kmaland.com/ag/iowa-farmers-push-back-on-precision-agriculture/article_ed5c650d-660b-4c43-a2d0-e9c88d2c0e79.html

🧬 Soybean's secret weapon against salt stress: GmHAK5, GmGSTU19, GmERF98 unlock crop resilience! Breeding the future of agriculture, one gene at a time 🌱 #Genomics #CropScience #PlantResearch https://emmecola.github.io/genomics-daily

🍚❄️ Rice genomes just got cooler! Transposable elements reveal cold-fighting genes, potentially revolutionizing crop breeding for climate resilience. #Genomics #CropScience #ClimateAdaptation 🌱 https://emmecola.github.io/genomics-daily

📗 'Identification of wheat varieties (lines) for #SaltTolerance and screening of germplasm in Ningxia spring wheat region' - an article from the Journal of #SouthernAgriculture on #ScienceOpen:

🔗 https://www.scienceopen.com/document?vid=e2347ec5-3d6f-4069-bb14-cc69a91bb1ce

#PlantBreeding #CropScience #WheatResearch

#FYI #CropProduction #farming #CropScience #food #FoodScience #FoodChemistry #FoodProduction #FoodSecurity #Malnutrition #Undernutrition #PlantScience

Society for Experimental Biology News Release 8-Jul-2025

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1089641

#ClimateScience #climatechange #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis #ClimateBreakdown #climatecatastrophe #globalWarming #globalHeating #ExtremeWeather #EcosystemCollapse #fossilfuels #Co2 #Co2Emissions #GreenhouseGases

Recent studies explore a novel approach to control parasitic #plants by manipulation rather than #biosynthesis of #strigolactone exudation.
Learn more about this potential #CropScience breakthrough in a new #JIPB commentary.🔓⬇️
https://doi.org/10.1111/jipb.13937
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#PlantSci #botany

Diagram to illustrate how modulation of strigolactone (SL) exudation in crops balances the relationship between phytoparasite management and crop growth and yield.

@mikebrunt

There's a lot to unpack here, including how we scientists think that we are smart but end up working on end-of-pipe-solutions that help temporarily to stabilize unsustainable systems.
This is a perfect example how academic knowledge does not lead to an understanding (or motivation) to address root causes.

Naturally, the problem of this nutrient crisis is that in industrial farming systems the amount of animals is not anymore related to the available land. And this is because of policy decisions to commodify agriculture in an neoliberal industrual system.

Compare it with the thousands of scientists, NGOs and foundations that deploy there energy in hyperexpensive investigations for cancer cures, but only an infimal fraction of this is inverted in the field of prevention.

Or the promotion of high-tech carbon-capture bullshit instead of degrowth.

#Agriculture #Agronomy #PlantNutrition #CropScience

A molecule once known only in humans is now growing corn. Meet itaconate—the future of food. #PlantGrowth #CropScience #MetaboliteMagic

https://geekoo.news/this-metabolite-could-supercharge-global-crop-growth/

Job - Alert 🌿

🌾 Research Scientist, postdoc, diverse farming practices

Deadline: 2025-05-19

Location: Finland, Jokioinen, until 16.00 / 4pm (EEST)

https://www.academiceurope.com/job/?id=7489

#hiring #Postdoc #Agriculture #Biology #cropscience #PlantPhysiology #PlantSciences

Multi-target #gene editing in the TILLER ANGLE CONTROL 1 regulatory region fine-tunes gene expression in #rice, creating a gradient of tiller angles, and improving architecture for high-density planting in diverse zones.
https://doi.org/10.1111/jipb.13877
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#PlantSci #JIPB #CropScience #botany

Panel of figures: (1) Sequence diagrams indicating regulatory elements; (2) Plant morphology of select terminal allelic mutants as captured 80 days after seed sowing. Bars = 20 cm

By engineering an imGS bypass within the #rice #mitochondria to bypass the #photorespiratory glycine toward glycine betaine, Mo et al. were able to improve #photosynthetic carbon fixation and panicle architecture.
https://doi.org/10.1111/jipb.13874
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#PlantSci #CropScience #botany

Panel of figures including microscopy assays (GFP, YFP, chlorophyll, bright, and merged), net photosynthesis measurements and panicle architecture morphology.

Follow Wired.com for the latest in all this:
#USDA Layoffs Derail Projects Benefiting American #Farmers | WIRED

#cropscience #agricuktirr
https://www.wired.com/story/usda-layoffs-throw-climate-and-crop-projects-into-chaos/

Reminder: Niab's Soft Fruit Technical Day coming up next week (28th November). Free online event, 09:10 to 14:15 GMT, a range of short talks on how our research can be applied to soft-fruit growing systems. Crop physiology & biology, IPPM, sustainable growing.

https://www.niab.com/niab-soft-fruit-day-28-nov

#Horticulture #SoftFruit #Agriculture #SustainableFood #IPM #Entomology #CropScience

In this *sweet* new #OpenAccess study, Cho et al. demonstrate that #sucrose promotes #flowering in rice by mediating the stability of a regulatory protein that represses flowering.
https://doi.org/10.1111/jipb.13790
@wileyplantsci
#JIPB #PlantScience #CropScience #BioChemistry #MolecularBiology #botany

#cropscience

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